Archive for the 'vintage' Category

Take one old lid-less vintage teapot..

Friday, October 15th, 2010

Add an appropriately sized jam jar (tea pot has a tiny hole in the bottom so am pleased R had bargained them down to 2 quid, some shop-bought roses and lavender and greenery from the garden and you have a interesting new flower holder. It also looked good with roses from my garden earlier in [...]

A fun-packed crafty day

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

I had a day’s leave to take before the end of the year so decided to take a day off to spend with my lovely friend Rachel baking and making for Christmas. We aren’t having anyone over for Christmas Day itself this year as we had thought we would but we are going to host [...]

Treats

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

pao and I had a week off last week to settle in little Sirius. Between bouts of playing with the little chap, we indulged in some charity shopping. We scored a huge load of new books to read – just some of them are in the picture. I found these beautiful bowls for about £2.50 [...]

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